Leo
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i'm sure you've read about the crazy 17-year cycle invasion of the cicadas that's starting here in the northeast US. i thought the leader in last week's economist was good:
http://www.economist.com/news/leade...look-cicadas-when-they-next-return-brood-2030
OVER the next few weeks billions of cicada grubs will awake from 17 years of subterranean slumber and emerge into the bright sunshine of America’s mid-Atlantic states. Their strange cycle has attracted the attention of journalists all over the country. The males will travel in vast swarms, create a tremendous racket in the hope of wooing a mate, make love frantically and then die, unlamented. The cicadas will do the same—the only difference being they will leave behind not unfinished novels but eggs that will hatch in another 17 years.
http://www.economist.com/news/leade...look-cicadas-when-they-next-return-brood-2030